A Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile fails to intercept a Russian cruise missile that strikes a target in Dnepropetrovsk (Dnepr) the night before.

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Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that Kyiv is ready to use not only the F-16, but also, for example, the Swedish Saab Gripen fighters.

Yesterday, the US Congress approved the allocation of $100 million for the initial training of Ukrainian pilots to pilot American F-15 and F-16 fighters.

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Six Russian Kh-101 missiles were targeted at the city of Dnipro on the evening of July 15. Long-range missiles were launched from Tu-95 bomber aircraft from the northern part of the Caspian Sea. Ukrainian Air Forces downed 4 Russian missiles.

The attack killed 3 people, injured 15 and damaged the industrial enterprise, says the Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Valentyn Reznichenko.

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CHINA – New Chinese 122-mm self-propelled guns PLC-171 on the chassis of the Dongfeng Warrior armored car.

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UKRAINE – Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how the Czech MLRS RM-70 Vampire work on the positions of the invaders.

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Recent footage of Ukrainian forces launching an attack on Russian-occupied village of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine.

The video shows preparatory artillery bombardment, after which the Ukrainian troops entered the village and engaged the Russians.

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⚠️ International peacekeeping forces, including US troops, will leave the island of Tiran in the Red Sea, which could prompt the transfer of control of this and another island, Sanafir, to Riyadh, stimulating future contacts between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces downed a Russian ZALA Lancet loitering munition in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, a fairly new system, first seen in 2019.

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The invaders aim to seize the road between Bakhmut and Lysychansk, which is strategically important for them, but they have not been able to do this for more than two months, - said the head of Luhansk regional military administration, Serhiy Hayday.

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RUSSIA – Unconfirmed reports of a Ukrainian UAV shot down over the village of Zelenaya Polyana in the Belgorod region.

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⚡️"MASSIVE missile strike across Ukraine,” says Ivano-Frankivsk Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv.

Western, Central, and Eastern, Ukraine 🇺🇦 is being hit RIGHT NOW by Russian 🇷🇺 missiles.

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Ukraine 🇺🇦 strike in Donetsk Oblast which is under temporary Russian 🇷🇺 occupation.

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Ukrainian paratrooper of the 80th Air Assault Brigade striking a moving Russian main battle tank with a Stugna-P ATGM in Donbas.
#Russia #Ukraine

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The #Ukrainians published a video of the vertical landing of the #AeroVironment Quantix Recon drone, 100 of which were handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the Americans. This drone has an unusual and rare aerodynamic design of a hybrid of an airplane and a helicopter.

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Foreign Policy, citing US intelligence sources, reports that Sudan has denied Russia a naval base in the Red Sea, which first became known in 2020.

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A model of a promising Turkish fighter TF-X was brought to Farnborough.

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This morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a trolleybus depot in the temporarily occupied city of Alchevsk in Luhansk Oblast, where Russian troops were stationed, reported the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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https://news.1rj.ru/str/zvezdanews/86073

UKRAINE – Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian troops destroyed 38,300 invaders, including 160 on July 16, says Ukrainian General Staff.

The occupiers suffered the greatest losses yesterday on the Bakhmut axis.

Russia also lost 1,684 tanks, 3,879 AFVs, and 220 planes.

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